A rule that requires officials to take into account whether an immigrant is “primarily dependent on the government” in considering permanent status, puts legal immigrants in limbo, and many choose to forgo benefits they're entitled to. Now the rules are about to get tougher.

Statue of liberty climber Therese Patricia Okoumou, who ascended the base of the statue on July 4 to protest the Trump administration’s policies, stood before a crowd of New Yorkers on Sunday wearing her favorite green dress with the words “I really do care, why won’t u?” on the back.

The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court drew instant criticism from women’s rights groups that consider him a potential fifth vote to curtail or overturn the right to abortion. But ahead of his confirmation hearing, voting rights advocates, alarmed about

The country hasn’t learned from history, says Anne Eleanor Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s granddaughter, who calls current immigration policies, like the internment of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, “inconsistent with who we are as a country.”

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served under George W. Bush, says he isn’t surprised by the “kind of tragedy” happening at the U.S. border, where President Trump's administration has been separating children from their families when they illegally cross it.

For the next few hours all devices are tucked away while the conversation proceeds without distraction, save for the cameras taping them. UNICEF and Purpose, a creative agency specializing in purpose-driven campaigns that impact policy, have organized this group to discuss the global refugee crisis.

For nearly 60,000 Haitians refugees in the U.S., protected status will end on July 22, 2019. But the conditions that drove them out of their country still exist. Women in particular are at risk from endemic sexual exploitation and violence. Here's the story of one of these women.